by Jay | Jul 6, 2010 | ACT, New England
Brent Dragon: ACT Late Model Tour
Airborne Speedway Race Preview
Brent Dragon of Milton, Vt., returns to Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, N.Y., this weekend for the ACT Late Model Tour’s rain-delayed Spring Green 100 on Saturday, July 10. The race was originally scheduled for May before weather postponed the event at a track where Dragon has enjoyed plenty of success. A three-time track champion there in the Late Model division (1995, 1996, 2000), it is the track Dragon refers to as “home.” In 2004, Dragon swept Airborne’s marquee events by winning both the Spring Green 100 and the Fall Foliage 200 in the same season. His father, Beaver Dragon, won the Spring Green 100 three times in his career, while his uncle, Bobby Dragon, is also a past winner of the race. Brent enters the sixth race of the ACT season second in the series standings, 89 points behind leader Brian Hoar.
WHO: Brent Dragon, Milton, Vt.
TEAM: No. 55 Beverage Mart/Furniture World of VT/Charlesbois Freightliner/Newton Pellets Chevrolet
BEST CAREER AIRBORNE SPEEDWAY FINISH: 1st (2 times, most recent: Fall Foliage 200, September 2004)
LAST RACE AT AIRBORNE SPEEDWAY: 3rd (September 2009)
WHAT: ACT Late Model Tour Spring Green 100
WHERE: Airborne Speedway, Plattsburgh, N.Y. (.500-mile oval)
WHEN: 6 p.m., Saturday, July 10
ACT Late Model Tour
LAST RACE: June 26, White Mountain Motorsports Park, North Woodstock, N.H. (6th-place)
NEXT RACE: July 18, TD Bank 250 (non-points), Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, Maine
POINTS POSITION: 2nd
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by Jay | Jul 6, 2010 | Maine, Oxford Plains Speedway
Davis Jr. Takes Upset in Strictlys
Keene and Spencer Jr. Earn Win
by: Caleb Lamb
OXFORD, Maine – A huge crowd was on hand on Maine State Lottery Fireworks Night and they were rewarded with fireworks both on the track and in the air. A spectacular fireworks display was put on by Central Maine Pyrotechnics, but the Oxford Championship Series put on a show of their own beforehand.
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by Jay | Jul 6, 2010 | Maine, Unity
Unity, ME – Tim Ferreira of Unity made it two straight wins in the Late Model class, topping the card Saturday night at Unity Raceway. Ferreira made an aggressive, last-lap move pay off at the expense of Frank Moulton of Burnham. Moulton, the reigning track champion, recovered to finish second, with Jefferson’s Mike Hodgkins third.
Waterville’s Ricky Burgess picked up his first victory of the year in Racin’ Paper Super Street competition. Burgess first survived the challenges of point leader Nate Weston of Madison before holding off Winslow’s Bard Bellows in the closing laps.
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by Jay | Jul 6, 2010 | New Hampshire
Mid-Season Shootout at Big Daddy’s Speedbowl
The best-kept secret in family entertainment is Big Daddy’s Speedbowl and that’s because we race on Sunday afternoons. Race fans are used to events running late into the night and then driving home. At Big Daddy’s on the Fourth of July, the extra-length, double-points features for the Ryzak Oil And Propane Mid-Season Shootout finished at 8:15! When people in Central New Hampshire and Vermon get used to that, the track will need to expand the seating.
Captain Bruce Morrill’s Company of colonial artillery from Franklin, NH opened the day with a 21 gun salute fired from their replica black powder cannons.
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by Jay | Jul 6, 2010 | New Hampshire
Bill Kimball Celebrates Firecracker Victory!
Winchester, NH: Fans packed the high banks stands as they prepared to deal with hot temperatures and an even a hotter racing program. The regular full schedule of Mini Stocks, Super Stocks, Outlaw Pros and Sportsman Modifieds would be joined by the touring Modified Racing Series pounding out 100 laps. The show would conclude with a huge fireworks display know as some of the best in the area.
The competitors would deal with their cars and track changing as the temperatures soared at the 5 pm start time. As qualifying began Mini Stock multi time winner Tim Jackson would have to be pushed off the track and was unable to answer the feature bell.
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by Jay | Jul 6, 2010 | Connecticut, Lime Rock Park, NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England
Pit Strategy Goes Awry For Fadden Racing’s Jonathan Smith At LRP
Lakeville, Conn. (July 5, 2010): A mid-race pit strategy foiled a top-10 run for Fadden Racing’s Jonathan Smith in the NASCAR K&N 100 at Lime Rock Park Saturday afternoon, and relegated the No. 61 BaBoom! Energy Spray/Riondo Wine/Athlete’s of America Chevrolet to a 13th place finish after a solid performance race long.
“We were hoping to do a fuel mileage race and not pit, but it didn’t turn out like we thought. There were a lot of green flag laps. We came in to pit and right after that there was a six or seven lap caution period.”
Smith proved he was going to be a force to reckon with from the onset of the weekend. He was fast in practice and backed it up with a qualifying effort of 94.947 mph to earn a 12th place position on the starting grid.
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by Jay | Jul 5, 2010 | New England, New Hampshire, PASS
PASS North: Ben Rowe reigns, breaks Clark’s skein
Naples ME (7/3/10) Ben Rowe has run up front in all four Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North races to date and Saturday night the four time series champ took Scott Mulkern’s Community Pharmacies 48 to victory lane, a first in the win column for the new team led by journeyman crew chief Seth Holbrook.
Rowe took the lead for good on lap 84 of Saturday night’s 150 lap Fourth of July Spectacular at Canaan (NH) Fair Speedway, battling with Johnny Clark over the final sixty six laps to claim the victory and foil Clark’s shot at four straight PASS North super late model wins.
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by Jay | Jul 5, 2010 | Thunder Road, Vermont
Cris Michaud Earns First Win of the Season on Pepsi Holiday Fireworks Night
Barre, VT – East Montpelier’s Cris Michaud earned his first win of the 2010 season on Sunday, July 4th’s Pepsi Holiday Fireworks event. Michaud, who has had some bad luck so far this season took his Ford powered Fusion from the fifth starting position and took the lead with less than fifteen laps to go. Michaud’s win will help him in not only the Thunder Road point standings but the Ford Blue Oval Cup standings. It was also Michaud’s 16th career Thunder Road Late Model win.
Northfield’s Matt White followed up his win this past Thursday with a second followed by Randolph’s Dylan Smith who finished a career high third after leading the first half of the 50 lap event. Rich Lowrey took fourth with Senator Phil Scott rounding out the top five. Reno Gervais, Nick Sweet, Thunder Road Late Model point leader Dave Pembroke, Grant Folsom and Joey Becker completed the top ten.
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by Jay | Jul 5, 2010 | Whip City
Peter Dance Grabs First Win
at Whip City Speedway
BY MARK MCKEON
WESTFIELD, MA – Former track champion Pete Dance got his groove back and picked up his first 1200cc Mini Sprint win of the season at Whip City Speedway. Dance withstood a single late race caution and a charge from Jon Moore enroute to his green-to-checker victory.
The night was a study in contrast for the 270cc Mini Sprints. Their heat race was plagued by eight caution periods, including one for a wreck which saw two cars flip and eliminated 60% of the 10 car field. By the time the feature rolled around, most cars were repaired, the drivers were on their best behavior and Kendall Segar enjoyed a non-stop romp to pick up his second win of the year.
Ricci Hirth was the top dog in the 600cc Mini Sprints, leading from wire-to-wire in a non-stop race. J.D. Casazza showed championship form by winning both the 750cc heat and the feature. In the 750 Sportsman race, Kyle Smith picked up his third win in his last four attempts. (more…)
by Jay | Jul 5, 2010 | Canada
Shediac, N.B.) — Long hours of work in the shop this week paid off in spades for Ron Lane (#46) of Prosser Brook as he drove his Maritime Cash Super Sportsman race car to victory in the FERO Maritime Super Series for Sportsman 100 at the Centre for Speed (CFS),
Atlantic Canada’s Super Speedway and “Metro Moncton’s Playground of Power”.
“This makes it all worthwhile,” said a beaming Lane as he savored his first feature win at CFS in over two years. “It’s thanks to the hard work of my crewmembers and the heart and soul of this team, my dad who put in a lot of hours this week to put this car back together,” said Lane as he dedicated the win to his pit crew.
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